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jig fish
05-25-2009, 11:40 PM
my dad and i left at about 4:30 on Saturday and made our way toward the sierras. at about 7:30 we got to lone pine and drove up to the portal to take a little break from the car.
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made it up to bishop during the mule days parade and watched the cowboys ride by. after watching the parade we headed up west line and had breakfast at cardinal lodge, i also caught a few 'bows in the pond while waiting for our food.
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we where pretty tired from the drive so we decided to go to north lake and be lazy.it was pretty wide open if you knew what you where doing but lots of people struggled to get a bite. we fished the far side of the lake for about 20 'bows each, 1 brown and 2 brookies. the fish at north lake where hitting mini jigs, power worms, woolly buggers behind a bubble, and crawlers. nothing on the buoyants or spinners.
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after north lake we had lunch at sabrina and hit the creek below the lake. my dad caught about 5 and i caught 9. it was pretty tricky to get them to bite.. you had to switch up your jigs and powerworms but as soon as they saw something new they nailed it. my dad also caught some in the creek twitching a floating rapala. there was a family camped near sabrina who were planning on catching trout for dinner so they didnt bring much food and they where asking for pointers. they weren't the best fishermen. they where really nice people so we gave them a bunch of the fish we caught in the creek. they would have been screwed for dinner if we didn't help them out. :Cool:

after that we checked into the trees motel, showered and had dinner at jacks.

the next morning we hit up rock creek and fished below the lake and caught somewhere around limits of 'bows and about 10 brookies on the fly rod. the rainbows at rock creek where kinda picky but they hit drifted crawlers, all where released .we had some burgers at the resort and headed down the hill to check out my fav. spot.... PVR :Razz:
srry no pics from rock creek.

We pulled up to the power plant and there where only a few cars in the lot. as we where walking to lake we saw a few groups of people walking back and they said it would be best if we turned around cuz it was SLOW. they must have been on something because the fishing was insane. we went about a 1/4 mile past the tree line because there was lots of moss but we found a clear spot.
once we settled down i cast out a crawler and was gonna tie on a jig but i got hit withing .003 seconds of casting out and i brought in a nice little 'bow. at this time my dad already caught a sac. perch on a jig. i knew i have caught a few perch in there before but had no idea it could go wide open like it did, with nice ones too. it was hard to get a trout on the jig cuz the perch where so thick. fishing a crawler would get you a trout every cast with only a few perch on the worm , i also got a nice brown that swallowed a crawler so it went on the stringer. a group of 4 guys filled their fish basket all the way to the top with perch. the trout where still biting after the sun went down but we had to stop because i used two tubs of worms and they and it was about 9:15.
to put it short it was all you wanted on perch and trout.

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monday, we slept in til 8:30, checked out of the motel and went back up west line. we checked out intake II and it was dead so we headed up to sabrina. it was pretty slow i managed 1 trout on a jig there where tons of fish cruising around but they didn't want anything. we talked to the guy who runs the landing and he was kinda mad dfg didn't stock when they where supposed to. he also said most of the fish we saw cruising around where sucker fish. he said they lake is infested with them but he has no idea how they got in there. anyone know anything about that?

anyway we headed to north lake for the same type of fishing we had there on Saturday. we hit the road for home at about 4:00, stopped in olancha to eat at the ranch house cafe which was pretty good and made it back to Hermosa by 9:30
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well, its almost midnight and i have school and i have school tomorrow but i am dead tired. i think i might be "sick" tomorrow :Wink:

Yoyo
05-26-2009, 01:05 AM
Thanks for the great report. Looks like you guys had an awesome time. Definately jealous.

Jon

Sierra_Smitty
05-26-2009, 08:35 AM
Great report man!!!!

That was quite a nice perch for PVR....way to go!

Next time you're up in the canyon, stop by Parchers for breakfast - I always hook it up for the FNN folks.

Peace,
Smitty

Trout-Slayer77
05-26-2009, 09:32 AM
dude, awesome report and great pics too !!! looks like a great time up there...i can't wait to get up there myself in july.

Joshua
05-26-2009, 10:26 AM
Nice report,
I got into the Perch at PVR once, it was wide open. Once you find them, it is fish On!!

deanhall32
05-26-2009, 11:06 AM
Great report kid!!! Pretty nice photos too. Ever thought about being a pro photographer??

bullets_full
05-26-2009, 11:45 AM
Awesome trip. Thanks for sharing!

_Bullets

FISH_HUNTER
05-26-2009, 11:47 AM
Keep up the good work! Great report and pictures!
I can't believe that people go up there with no food! That's just crazy!

gman444
05-26-2009, 03:47 PM
Nice Report, those action shots are cool :Cool: I'm so pissed my parents didnt let me go with you

BishopTrouter
05-26-2009, 05:41 PM
Those are some nice @$$ pictures.... look like the DFG has been stocking better quality fish lately

jeff4321
05-26-2009, 05:49 PM
N00b move number 1: your only supposed to be "sick" on the days you go fishing.. not recovering cuz that can be done in class hahahaha

bsp
05-26-2009, 07:29 PM
Good job on nailing the fish, the sierras always seem to produce if you know what's up. Way to go on helping that family too. Some good karma is headed your way because of that. I know what you men about people saying fishing sucks when it was really good. The best is when somebody says that, you ask them if you can fish for 5 minutes there, they say yes, and then watch you hook up on the first or second cast!

jmurillo74
05-26-2009, 09:43 PM
Killer trip, thanks for the report.

screaming_spool
05-26-2009, 09:53 PM
nice report

olfishergal
05-26-2009, 10:23 PM
very cool, great pics........OFG

Noobiesrule
05-27-2009, 11:17 AM
It's too bad you kept that brown but I guess won't hurt. It's nice to see someone else up there this weekend was fishing anything other than bait. I ended my weekend with about 70 trout.

jig fish
05-27-2009, 03:48 PM
It's too bad you kept that brown but I guess won't hurt. It's nice to see someone else up there this weekend was fishing anything other than bait. I ended my weekend with about 70 trout.

yeah the brown was bleeding before i even tried to take the hook out :Confused: but i release way more wild trout than i keep

trollmiester
05-27-2009, 08:13 PM
Thanx for sharing.Great pictures and fun fun fun.See you guys soon.

diamondbear
05-27-2009, 08:31 PM
GREAT REPORT and pics , good looking stringer .